Cotton-gin-cleaning device.



No. 839,674. PATENTED DEC. 25, 1906.

F. H. TAYLOR.

COTTON GIN CLEANING DEVICE.

APPLICATION TILED NOV. 23, 1905.

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COTTON-GlN-CLEANING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 25, 1906.

Application filed November 23, 1905. Serial No. 288,759-

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANCIS HENRY TAY- LOR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Kansas City, in the county of I/Vyam dotte and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Cotton-Gin-Cleaning Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide means for readily and effectively cleaning the saw-cylinders of cotton-gins of the gummy matter which accumulates thereon under some conditions. I attain this end by a peculiar rubbing device, which may form apermanent part of the in or a temporary attachment thereto, as desired, and which when thrown into action alternately scrapes or rubs the sides of the saws, rapidly and effectively removing the accumulations thereon.

The invention resides in certain peculiar features of construction and combinations of parts which will be fully set forthhereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate, as an example, the preferred embodiment of my invention, in which- Figure 1 is a fragmentary view, partly in section on the line 1 1 in Fig. 2, showing the saw-cylinder of the gin and illustrating my improvement operating thereon. Fig. 2 is an elevational view of the improved cleaner, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged section showing the manner in which the cleaner operates on the sawcylinder.

indicates a fra ment of the ginframe, and 1 1 the saw-cylinder, which may be of the usual or any desired form. As here shown,

my improvement is mounted on a frame 12,

which is separate from the gin-frame, so that the device may be moved from one gin to another. Obviously, however, the device could be mounted on the frame 10 as a permanent part of the gin.

14 indicates a shaft which is mounted on the frame 12 to rotate freely and also allowed a limited sliding movement. This shaft is provided with a pulley 15 or other means for imparting a rapid rotation thereto, and fastened to the shaft is a grooved collar 16, erigaged by a hand-lever 17, which is fulcrumed on the frame 12. other device the shaft may be rotated, and it may be moved axially at will through the medium of the lever 17. Secured to the shaft 14 are a number of disks 18, which are clamped firmly together to formi allsolid drum by means of tie-rods 19. These disks 18 have reduced peripheral portions 20, and secured in recesses therein are the rubbing 0r scraping members 21. These members 21 are formed, preferably, of india-rubber and project beyond each side of the reduced peripheries of the disks 18, a space being left between the rubbing-blocks, however, to receive the points of the saw-cylinder, as shown in 3, and from this View it will be observed that the arrangement is such that when the disks 18 are in their intermediate position the rubbing-blocks do not contact with the gin-saws. By shifting the drum, however, to one side or the other the rubbing-blocks are brought into engagement with the sides of the gin-saws, so that they will act on the same, removing accumulations thereon. In the practical operation of the invention, therefore, if the device is mounted on a separate frame, such as the frame 12, in order to clean the saw-cylinder the lever 17 should be shifted in one direction, causing the rubbing-blocks to engage the gin-saws at one side. The saw-cylinder, as well as the disks 18, should then be revolved, the rub hing-cylinder being revolved, preferably, at a higher rate than that of the gin-cylinder. This will cause the saws to be cleaned on one side, and after this is effected the cleaningcylinders should be shifted in the opposite direction, engaging the rubbing-blocks with the saws on the opposite side and cleaning this side of the saw. After this operation is effected the rubbing-cylinder should be returned to its intermediate position. The cleaning device may then be removed from the gin and used in connection with other machines. If the cleaning device forms a permanent part of the gin when said device is not in operation, the drum should be moved to intermediate position, so that it will not interfere with the proper operation of the sa'w-cylinder.

Having thus described the preferred form By means of the belt or 0fmyinvention,what1 claim as new, and de- In testimony whereof I have signed my 10 sire to secure by Letters Patent, is i name to this specification in the presence of A gin-saw cleaner comprising a plurality of two subscribing Witnesses. disk-like members fastened together side by side to form a drum, said members having re- FRANCIS HENRY TAYLOR. duced edges to receive the gin-saws between them, and rubbing members secured in cavi- Witnesses:

ties in the reduced edges of the disks to en- 1 J. A. FORsHU,

gage the gin-saws. M. E. WARREN. 

